Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously in fact. Therefore I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

You don't go around grieving all the time but the grief is still there and always will be.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

With the success of the last three or so years when a lot of people start treating you differently there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say 'Hey wake up!'

All these people who say success changes people well no it just magnifies what's there.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

In a balanced organization working towards a common objective there is success.

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is therefore a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.

If there's no fire there's no scream. If there's no scream then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

If there is any secret to my success I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel and therefore I think my readers care about them.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Well you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Like everybody I have invested in things that have gone bad because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.